Dog Training

Dog Training

Please click the following link to see a video of one of our trained dogs, and to fully understand the benefits of having your dog trained.

PLEASE CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINKS TO SEE CUSTOMERS DOGS THAT WE HAVE TRAINED!

Customer video one:

Customer video two:

We TRAIN LITTLE DOGS TOO! Even little dogs can be obedient. Meet Rex, his tiny but man do his legs move fast, his owner couldn't catch him when brought to the dog park. Now his owner doesn't have to rely on the dog park at all because he's fully trained off-leash. WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW!!!

Customer video three:

Meet Domino, he was just all over the place before he was trained by us! Now he listens and can't wait to do what his owner says! Notice how happy Domino is and all the other dogs are after training. We take pride in producing results and also making it extremely fun for the dogs. CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO WATCH THE VIDEO!!!

Customer video four:

Puma is deaf! But we could still train him to obey commands! His owner couldn't control him at all and didn't know how to train him being he couldn't hear. So we got him a special collar that vibrated. We taught him to come to his owner when he felt the vibration, taught him to lie down and stay when his owner gave him a hand signal, then taught him he could get up and do what he wanted when his owner gave him two pats on the head! Very proud of Puma now and his owner can take him places with no worries!

What we offer and how it works:

We offer fully off leash obedience training at Rob's Dogs, LLC. We believe that every dog should be able to live life free of chains or restrictions. Dogs are like little athletes that live among us. They will never be happy without proper exercise, and being tied to a leash makes that very difficult. They need to be able to run and play, but a dog confined to a leash doesn't get that freedom.

We offer fully off leash obedience training. The price for dog training depends on which commands you would like the dog to learn, the behavior of the dog, and any bad habits your dog may have. We offer evaluations where you bring your dog to us, we work with them for five minutes, and then we show you a demo of one of our dogs and what kind of commands we could train your dog to do. From there we would figure out which commands you would like your dog to learn. Then we would be able to give an exact time on how long it would take to train your dog and how much it would cost.

Our competitors do it differently, they tell you over the phone exactly how much it will cost per week of training, but do not tell you for sure what your dog will learn or how far in the training process he/she will progress. And for all you know they are taking their sweet time training your dog as they know the longer it takes your dog to learn the commands they more weeks of training your dog will require. This method is deceptive as people usually feel taken advantage of and usually end up spending more money than they planned on.

This is why we have to work with your dog first before we can give prices. All dogs learn at different speeds just like teaching two different children how to read could take a lot longer for one child opposed to the other.

Please call or send us an inquiry via our website to set up a time for the evaluation.

Training Methods

Training your dog to a level that allows him to be taken anywhere, under various distractions, without any doubt in your mind that your dog will listen to you every time, is a lot more than teaching your dog the commands and holding a treat to his nose.

Let me explain the three different types of trainers out there.

#1 "The Beggars and the Bribers." This type of trainer tells you that they can train your dog with absolutely no correction whatsoever. Their only way to get a dog to do things is to offer them a treat or a toy in return for doing a behavior. The problem with this method is, that if they are faced with a distraction that has more value to them than the treat, they will not listen. For instance a dog may sit in your living room for a hot dog, but would they do it in the front yard if a cat runs by? Probably not, and thats the problem with this method. This method however, does work for very select few dogs. Some dogs are very naturally obedient. They want nothing more than to please you. But I'm assuming if you are reading this your dog does not fall into the "naturally obedient" category!

#2 "The Yank and the Crank trainers." This type of trainer is old school. And when I say old school I mean OLD SCHOOL. For instance, they take a dog that doesn't know anything whatsoever, and tell him to sit. If the dog doesn't sit they give him a hard leash correction by pulling the leash up forcefully with a prong collar. After a while the dog learns that in order to avoid the correction he needs to get his butt to the ground as soon as possible. Now this method works fast, and that is why a lot of trainers use this method. But there are so many things wrong with this way of training. For one, its abuse in my opinion. The dog never has an opportunity to learn the command before they get corrected for not doing it. The second reason why this method isn't good is because you take a nice happy dog and turn him into a dog who is scared and unhappy. I'm sure you've seen it before. A dog who is cowering, most dogs that have been trained with this method end up looking like this after they have been trained. Very few dogs can be trained with this method without getting their spirit broken.

#3 I call the 3rd type of trainer the "Fair but Firm Trainers." Which is what we are. When we teach a dog new commands we do so in an environment with no distractions at all. We use toys and treats to inspire the dogs to learn the commands. For instance, we tell a dog to sit, if they don't sit we lure the dog in a way that gets him to sit down. Once their butt hits the ground we give them the treat. After a few times of doing this the dog learns that in order to receive the treat he must sit. Thus teaching the dog the command. There are a lot of little things you must do also, but for times sake I simplified it for you. We do the same process for all the commands. Once the dog has learned everything 100 percent we start to introduce distractions. If its the type of dog that would rather have the distraction than the reward we introduce a light correction. Now the level of correction is VERY important. All dogs require different levels of corrections. Depending on how sensitive the dog is determines how firm the correction should be. If the correction is too light the dog won't respond to it and will continue to go after the distraction. If it is too firm it will break the dogs spirit. So to figure out which level of correction is right for the dog we start out with the lightest correction possible. If the dog stops going after the distraction FANTASTIC! If they continue to go after it then we give them another correction at a slightly higher level, and we continue this process until the dog responds to the correction and stops going after the distraction. The form of correction we use is with a leash and a training collar, depending on the dog and how sensitive they are determines the type of collar we use.

When it comes to training we have found out the best method for the dog. If the training doesn't work for the dog in the real world then you do not want to take them places as often, and will never be able to let them be off-leash, to run and play like dogs should be able to do. But we also want the dogs to enjoy training and love their time with us, so we take some extra time assuring we don't rush the dog into doing the commands around distractions until they know them for sure! Our training method is the perfect balance that allows the dogs to live the happiest life possible.

The saddest thing in the dog world is a dog that's sole purpose is to sit in the house and live life alone in the house, yard, or kennel.

I rarely have to ever correct my dog anymore because he always listens. And he is one of the happiest dogs because I take him everywhere being he is such a joy to have with me. No chains, no cages, freedom, thru off-leash obedience training.

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We offer two types of training. The first option is where your dog come to us, we do all the training, then we give you back a completely trained dog. The next option is where you come once a week, we give you a lesson, and you do the training once a day for the next seven days. Pricing depends on the dog and the level of training you are looking for. Please call (480) 490-8941 or fill out and submit the form below to get all the details.